Pisa Celebrates Bruno Pontecorvo Supervised by Irène Curie, Centre, and Her Memory of Husband Frédéric Joliot, Left

CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places

a W a r D s Sessler honoured with Enrico Fermi Award

Andrew Sessler, well known both for his work Andrew Sessler, well known for his in accelerator physics and as a humanitarian, contributions to accelerator physics. (Image has been awarded the uS government’s credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/LBNL.) enrico Fermi Award. He shares the award with Allen Bard, of the University of Texas at Austin, who was selected for his pioneering humanitarian causes. During the cold War contributions to the fi eld of electrochemistry. era, he was a co-founder of the human rights The two scientists received the award in a group Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and ceremony that took place in Washington, Sharansky (SOS) – scientists who were DC, on 3 February. Beforehand, they had the persecuted as dissidents in what was then the opportunity to meet the US president, Barack Soviet union. obama, at the White House. The Fermi Award, which is one of the A former director of the Lawrence contributions to the establishment of uS federal government’s oldest and most Berkeley National Laboratory (1973–1980), the beam-physics knowledge basis that prestigious prizes for scientifi c achievement, Sessler fi rst made his scientifi c mark in has underpinned the development of is administered on behalf of the White House the 1950s, with foundational work in current-generation particle accelerators and by the uS Department of energy. particle accelerators that provided the basis storage rings deployed at leading research ● A revised and expanded edition of for today’s colliders, synchrotron light institutions throughout the world”. Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle sources and free-electron lasers. The Fermi Sessler is also recognized for his public Accelerators by Andrew Sessler and Award honours him for his “outstanding advocacy of scientifi c freedom and other edmund Wilson is due out in April.

Luciano Maiani, right, receives the 2013 Maiani receives the Pontcorvo Award from Richard Lednicky, vice-director of JINR. (Image credit: JINR.)

2013 Pontecorvo on a model that suppressed strangeness- changing weak neutral currents through the Award introduction of a fourth quark – charm. The award was presented at the 115th session of the JINR Scientifi c Council Luciano Maiani has been awarded the by the vice-director of Jinr, richard 2013 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize by the Joint Lednicky. During the ceremony Maiani Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). director-general of CERN (1999–2003), gave a talk on perspectives in theoretical Maiani is honoured for his “outstanding he was also the president of italy’s inFn and experimental physics following the contribution to particle physics, in and of the national research council. He discovery of a Higgs boson, in which he particular his work on weak interaction is particularly well known for his work highlighted investment in accelerators for physics and neutrino physics”. A former with Sheldon Glashow and John iliopoulos the advancement of science. François Englert receives honorary doctorate

On 12 November, four weeks before the François Englert, right, with former Nobel prize award ceremony in Stockholm, student Jean Orloff, theoretician at François englert was made Doctor Honoris Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire Causa of the Blaise Pascal University (UBP) and mentor for this award. (Image credit in clermont-Ferrand, on a proposal of the Danyel Massacrier.) Laboratoire de Physique corpusculaire (LPC). Previous Nobel laureates in physics the writer, philosopher, mathematician proposed by the LPc for honorary doctorates and physicist, Blaise Pascal. He wrote this from UBP include Jack Steinberger in 1995 premonitory sentence about the vacuum in and Richard Taylor in 1997. to LHc experiments is particularly notable, 1647: “empty space is in between matter and The LPC – a joint laboratory of with teams involved in the ATLAS, ALice nothingness” – or in 17th century French CNRS-IN2P3/UBP – has worked with and LHcb experiments. language: “l’espace vide tient le milieu entre CERN since the early 1960s. Its contribution clermont-Ferrand is the birthplace of la matière et le néant”.

Untitled-1 1 11/03/2014 16:38 cerncourier www. V o l u m e 5 4 N u m b e r 3 A p r i l 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier April 2014 CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places Faces & Places

Magnet design for HiLumi LHC wins competition

When Charilaos Kokkinos returned to Greece after a fellowship at cern on the HiLumi LHc Design Study, he set up an engineering The Proton Synchrotron (PS) is the oldest accelerator operating at CERN. consultancy called FeAc engineering. now, Its origins date back to 1952, when the provisional CERN Council decided the company has won a competition with his to build a “high-energy” PS. Within a few months, the PS group convinced work on the design of an 11 T superconducting The winning design image, for an 11 T LHC magnet. (Image credit: FEAC Engineering.) Council to launch a study for an alternating-gradient PS of “about 30 dipole magnet for the HiLumi LHC project. GeV” as the main project of the new laboratory (cern courier January/ it was one of the winners of “best-in-class” in ANSYS engineering design tools the chance from product concept and computer-aided February 2004 p15). On 3 February 1959, the fi rst of the 100 main magnet units was the corporate category of the 2014 ANSYS to showcase their simulation and engineering design drafting to advanced multi-physics installed in the empty PS tunnel hauled by a small electric battery-driven vehicle. inc. Hall of Fame competition. skills through the production of eye-catching fi nite-element analysis and design Nobody in 1952 could have imagined that the PS would remain the backbone of CERN’s This annual image competition aims to simulation images and animations. optimization by using state-of-the-art scientifi c activities well into the 21st century. Keeping it in operation has involved some highlight some of engineering’s most complex Based in Greece, the new company, FEAC computer-aided engineering tools. serious maintenance. Since 2003 there has been a huge campaign to refurbish the design challenges. The contest gives users of engineering, provides consulting services ● For more details, see www.feacomp.com. magnets, which has required removing and reinstalling them with the old vehicle – itself refurbished. Here, right, it is seen moving a refurbished magnet in a now crowded tunnel TOTEM and CDF studies win INFN thesis prize on 3 February 2009. (Image credits: CERN-IT-0106040 and CERN-AC-0902012 – 13).

a PPOiNtMENts Mirko Berretti from Siena University and multiplicity in the T2 particle telescope. Federico Sforza of inFn Pisa have won Sforza’s work was on measurement of the Brookhaven names new deputy the 2013 inFn conversi Prize for their production of pairs of vector bosons with PhD theses. They received their awards in a the cDF experiment at Fermilab. His thesis ceremony that was held on 7 February at the is on “evidence for diboson production in director for science and technology seat of the inFn Presidency in rome. the lepton plus heavy ﬂ avor jets fi nal state Berretti earned his doctorate in studies at at cDF”. CERN’s LHC, specifi cally the “Measurement This annual award by inFn celebrates experimental physicist robert Tribble of the forward charged particle pseudorapidity the role of Marcello Conversi (1917–1988). has become deputy director for science density in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the The competition is open to members of Mirko Berretti receives his prize from INFN and technology at the uS Department of ToTeM experiment”. in particular, he did inFn who have gained doctorates in president, Fernando Ferroni, left, while Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. important work on the pattern recognition the past year with a thesis in the fi eld of Federico Sforza, right, looks on. (Image He joins Brookhaven from Texas A&M and reconstruction of the charged-track subnuclear physics. credit: INFN.) University (TAMU), where he was distinguished professor of physics and astronomy and director of the cyclotron Willibald Jentschke (centre left) toasts institute and the nuclear Solutions institute. Donatus Degèle, Hermann Kumpfert and Tribble joined TAMU in 1975, following the synchrotron team in the DESY control a PhD from Princeton university. An room on 26 February 1964, after the fi rst experimental physicist whose work spans a particles successfully circulated repeatedly broad range of topics, he is widely credited through the vacuum system of the DESY with developing new tools and techniques synchrotron, approximately 300 m in that have advanced the fi eld. He has circumference. After two weeks of at times served as a member or chair of numerous Robert Tribble is now deputy director for frustrating efforts by the accelerator team, long-range planning committees for the science and technology at Brookhaven. all went quickly. The fi rst electrons reached American Physical Society and the nuclear (Image credit: Brookhaven National 2.5 GeV in about 8000 orbits, with 5 GeV Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), Laboratory.) obtained the following day, just 1 GeV leading the development of the most recent below the design energy. Today, 50 years nSAc Long range Plan for nuclear major accelerator facilities – RHIC and the later, the DESY accelerator continues to Science, as well as evaluating the state of new national Synchrotron Light Source operate reliably, delivering beams of up to nuclear-physics facilities around the world. II – Tribble joins a team that is taking on 1.8 × 10 10 particles at 6.3 GeV, and is still in He played a key role in communicating new challenges, from expanding rHic demand as a test beam for studies of future the importance of the uS nuclear-science to the electron–ion collider erHic, to detectors. In this image, Norwegian programme – including research that synthesizing new nanomaterials for accelerator pioneer Rolf Widerøe watches takes place at Brookhaven’s Relativistic materials and biosciences, improving energy far left. (Image credit: DESY.) Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). effi ciency and developing new sustainable In moving to Brookhaven, with its two energy sources.

36 37 cerncourier www. V o l u m e 5 4 N u m b e r 3 A p r i l 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier April 2014 CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places Faces & Places

Magnet design for HiLumi LHC wins competition

36 37 cerncourier www. V o l u m e 5 4 N u m b e r 3 A p r i l 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier April 2014 CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places Faces & Places

C E N t E N a r Y C E L E B r a t i O N Sanqiang Qian, right, obtained his Beijing honours the doctorate in 1940 in Paris, with a thesis Pisa celebrates Bruno Pontecorvo supervised by Irène Curie, centre, and her memory of husband Frédéric Joliot, left. In 1948, Sanqiang Qian and his wife Zehui He, also a Sanqiang Qian and physicist, returned to China, where they both became deeply involved in the development of nuclear and particle physics in their home Zehui He country. Commemorative envelopes were issued as part of the centenary celebrations for Sanqiang Qian and Zehui He. (Image The chinese physics community recently credits: Qian family and China Post.) celebrated the centenaries of the birth of two of the country’s pioneers in nuclear and Marie Curie – travelled to Beijing to physics. The centenary of Sanqiang Qian participate in the afternoon ceremony. (1913–1992) on 16 October 2013 was Hélène gave a speech recollecting Sanqiang Left: The room in the exhibition “Bruno Pontecorvo from Pisa to Moscow, a long journey through history and science” dedicated to his years followed by that of his wife Zehui He Qian’s study and research in France during in Russia. (Image credit: Federico Borghesi.) Right: Some of the symposium participants during a talk. At front left to right are Jack (1914–2011) on 5 March this year. 1937–1948 under the supervision of her Steinberger, Giorgio Bellettini and Italo Mannelli, with Guido Altarelli and Josè Bernabeu visible behind. (Image credit: Giuseppe Fausto.) A symposium to honour the scientifi c parents, and his friendship with her family. achievements of the two eminent physicists on the morning of 17 october, Weichen The interplay between science, life and a textile factory that employed about 2000 personal belongings were also on show: the was held in Beijing on the centenary of Shen, the executive vice-president and chief society was at the centre of a series of events workers in the 1930s. One of the buildings briefcase that he used to carry his papers and Sanqiang Qian’s birth. organized by the went to Berlin after graduating, and after executive-secretary of cAST, met with organized in Pisa last year to celebrate of the Pontecorvo factory now hosts the documents in Dubna, the Lenin Prize and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), several years pursuing a doctorate and further Hélène, Pierre and Anne at the headquarters one of its most renowned citizens, Bruno physics department and the local inFn experimental logbooks where he wrote the the china Association for Science and research in Germany, she moved to Paris of CAST. Weichen Shen thanked the Pontecorvo, on the centenary of his birth. division. The reconstruction of his life as a results of the fi rst experiments he performed Technology (CAST) and the China National in 1946 and married Sanqiang Qian – with French guests for coming to Beijing to on 18–20 September, distinguished student was enriched by original documents in Dubna in the years 1950–1954. These Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), about 350 whom she had kept in contact via letter – and participate in the centenary commemoration scientists from around the world gathered from his high-school and university years. notes witness Bruno’s remarkable insights friends, colleagues and students, as well then started to work with him at the Curie programme. on behalf of chinese scientists to commemorate Bruno and his scientifi c At the age of 18, Bruno left Pisa for into the existence of a muon neutrino and as members of the Qian and He families, institute. Two years later, they returned and researchers, he acknowledged the ideas at an international scientifi c rome to complete his physics studies under on the conservation of strangeness in strong attended. There were key speeches by to china where they both became deeply valuable help that their parents had given symposium organized by inFn, Pisa the supervision of enrico Fermi. Here, interactions, well before their offi cial claims. the president of cAS, the executive involved in the development of nuclear and to Chinese scientifi c research during its university, Scuola normale Superiore, as the youngest physicist of the group, he A series of movies and images from the vice-president and chief executive-secretary particle physics in their diffi cult beginnings in the early 1950s. JINR Dubna and CERN. The fi rst day was participated in the experiments with slow years 1930–1990 clarifi ed the historical and of cAST, former students and colleagues home country (CERN The French dedicated to his life story and to personal neutrons for which Fermi was awarded the scientifi c background in which some of the of Sanqiang Qian and Zehui He, young Courier September visitors were recollections by friends and former Nobel prize in 1938. Bruno then moved most brilliant ideas in particle physics where students and the daughter and son of the two 1992 p40, January/ impressed by students, among them Jack Steinberger, to Paris in 1936 to work with Frédéric developed. A special room was dedicated professors. The speakers recollected the February 1994 p30 their meeting Ettore Fiorini, Guenakh Mitselmakher Joliot-curie, and later to the uS and canada to Bruno’s scientifi c legacy: instruments, lives and achievements of the two pioneering and December 2011 with Weichen and Samoil Bilenky. During the second to escape from racial persecution in europe. interviews, movies and photos presented scientists from various perspectives, and p29). Shen and other and third days, scientifi c presentations His return to Europe (the UK) in 1949 and his some of the present-day experiments their important contributions to chinese During the CAST offi cers, by international experts gave a complete subsequent move to the USSR in 1950, which motivated by his ideas – for example, nuclear research and chinese science in symposium, and considered overview of the state-of-the-art in the raised heated discussions and debates at the neutrino oscillations, universality in weak general. Sanqiang Qian was vice-president of three newly it to be one of the different fi elds constituting the legacy of time, were then presented. Bruno reappeared interactions, lepton ﬂ avour and number CAS and vice-president (and later honorary best meetings Bruno’s ideas: the theory of neutrino mass “offi cially” in Moscow in 1955, and from violation and solar neutrinos. president) of during their visit and mixing; solar, reactor, atmospheric then on spent his life and scientifi c activity in parallel with the exhibition, events cAST in the published books to Beijing. and geo-neutrinos; double beta decay and in Dubna, where he contributed to nuclear were also organized to celebrate two 1970s and were distributed – a The following day, Hélène, Pierre and direct measurements of neutrino mass; and elementary particle physics, especially of his brothers: projections of the most 1980s. All of long biographical Anne went to Peking University (PKU) in lepton-ﬂ avour violation processes and in the fi eld of neutrinos. The fi nal section of important fi lms by the movie director the speakers chronology of the afternoon to give lectures in the School neutrinos in cosmology and astrophysics. the exhibition dealt with the years after 1978, Gillo Pontecorvo, and a conference about hoped that the Sanqiang Qian of Physics in celebration of its centenary, The centenary of Bruno’s birth was when Bruno returned to Italy after 30 years Guido Pontecorvo, the famous geneticist. scientifi c and and biographies which by coincidence was on 19 October. also the occasion to explore his life not of absence for the 70th birthday of his friend A conference on “Pisa and the Pontecorvo technological of Sanqiang Qian Hélène and Pierre gave talks on “The Curies: only as a scientist but also as a man, in edoardo Amaldi. family” underlined the importance of the achievements of and Zehui He – from radioactivity to nuclear energy, beyond connection with history and society. This each room of the exhibition displayed whole family to the city of Pisa. Sanqiang Qian as well as two the Nobel Prizes” and “Basic and applied was the aim of the exhibition “Bruno precious material illustrating Bruno’s The centenary of Bruno’s birth was and Zehui He commemorative envelopes issued research, yesterday and today”. Pontecorvo from Pisa to Moscow, a long work and life. In particular, the original the occasion to explore, once again, the would inspire younger chinese by china Post. in the afternoon, another on 3 March, a centennial commemoration journey through history and science”, equipment and sources (kindly lent by the relationship between science and society, and scientists in their current and future research. ceremony with about 200 participants symposium for Zehui He was held at the held from 11 September to 22 December physics museum of rome “La Sapienza” to meditate on a famous saying of Bruno’s: Sanqiang Qian and Zehui He both was organized by the cnnc at the china Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) at the Limonaia di Palazzo ruschi in Pisa. university) used for the discovery of the “What’s more important in life: to make the graduated from the physics department of institute of Atomic energy, to open a of cAS, where she had served as deputy The exhibition portrayed Bruno’s life artifi cial radioactivity induced by slow right choices or to be a good person? I think Tsinghua University in 1936. A year later, retrospective exhibition commemorating the director from 1973 to 1984. About 100 through the places and countries where neutrons, together with hand-written I’ve made many mistakes, but I’ve always Sanqiang Qian went to Paris to the laboratory centenary of Sanqiang Qian’s birth. colleagues, friends and members of her he lived, starting with Pisa, where he was logbooks with comments from Bruno, been a good person.” of Irène Curie (Marie Curie’s daughter) Hélène Langevin-Joliot and Pierre (and family attended. The chinese Journal of born on 22 August 1913 into a wealthy, Fermi and co-workers, were a bonus for both ● For more about the symposium, see www. and her husband Frédéric Joliot, obtaining Anne) Joliot – the daughter and son (and Modern Physics also published a special non-observant Jewish family. Here, his physicists and the general public visiting pi.infn.it/pontecorvo100/. For more on the his doctorate there in 1940 with a thesis his wife) of Frédéric and irène Joliot-curie, 22-page section in its March issue, with grandfather, Pellegrino Pontecorvo, owned the exhibition. Some of Bruno’s precious exhibition, visit www.pontecorvopisa.it/. supervised by the Joliot-curies. Zehui He and the only two grandchildren of Pierre articles celebrating her life.

38 39 cerncourier www. V o l u m e 5 4 N u m b e r 3 A p r i l 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier April 2014 CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places Faces & Places

v i s i t s O B i t u a r i E s Sergey Kruglov 1929–2014

Sergey Pavlovich Kruglov, professor and main detectors and the unpolarized and chief researcher at the Petersburg nuclear polarized hydrogen targets used to measure Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, passed cross-sections and polarization observables. away on 20 January following a brief The partial-wave analysis technique allowed hospitalization. Sergey was an honoured him to interpret data from Gatchina and scientist of the russian Federation and around the world. In 1985, Sergey received a leading fi gure in meson physics and his habilitation qualifi cation on the study of electromagnetic interactions, with the study elastic pion–nucleon scattering in the region of muon spin rotation (μSr) one of his most of low-lying pion–nucleon resonances. notable contributions. Later, he was involved in the Crystal Ball Sergey was born in Vologda on 5 April activity at Brookhaven National Laboratory 1929. Admitted to the St Petersburg Sergey Kruglov. (Image credit: Nance to study hadronic physics using both pion State Polytechnic University (the former Briscoe.) and kaon secondary beams. Finally, he Leningrad Polytechnic institute), he returned to his favourite task – the physics Nobel laureate François Englert, pictured here in front of the equation received his MA degree in nuclear physics Igor Lopatin. He had a major impact on the of electromagnetic processes – using the Dutch state secretary for education, culture and science, Sander Dekker, describing the Brout–Englert–Higgs (BEH) mechanism, came to CERN on in 1953. He then went to PNPI (the former development of both the PnPi High energy Crystal Ball at the Mainz Microtron. right, visited CERN on 29 January. During his extensive tour of the 21 March to present “The BEH mechanism and its scalar bosons” – his fi rst Leningrad nuclear Physics institute and Physics Division and the fi eld of hadron Sergey supervised more than 20 PhD laboratory, he was shown the LHC tunnel by Gijs de Rijk, of CERN’s public talk since receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics together with ioffe Physical-Technical institute) and in physics at Gatchina and worldwide. students who now work at nuclear-physics Technology Department. (Image credit: CERN-PHOTO-201401-019 – 11.) Peter Higgs. (Image credit: CERN-PHOTO-201402-033 – 2.) 1961 received his PhD on the comparison of Sergey later focused on the complete facilities worldwide. He was a great mentor ionization and calorimetric measurements experiment for pion–nucleon elastic and friend, and an excellent teacher with of the energy fl ux of gamma radiation from scattering to determine partial-wave infectious enthusiasm and a strong supporter i N D u s t r Y electron accelerators, with Anton Komar as amplitudes and parameters of low-lying of his students. The community will miss his adviser. Sergey summarized this study in non-strange nucleon resonances. He led him greatly. German companies display their wares at CERN the book Measurement of the total energy of the effort to build two meson channels at ● William Briscoe, Anatoly Gridnev, Nikolai the beams from the electron bremsstrahlung the 1-GeV PnPi proton synchrocyclotron, Kozlenko, Igor Lopatin, Igor Strakovsky and accelerators (1972 Nauka) with Komar and and supervised the construction of the two Victorin Sumachev. The 12th Germany at CERN, held on 28–29 January, saw the largest gathering of German industrial representatives at cern to date. A heated marquee outside the cern restaurant Lorenzo Foà 1937–2014 accommodated 59 companies, which presented their latest ideas and technologies for the maintenance, renovation and Lorenzo Foà, a protagonist of experimental introduction in modern physics. expansion of cern’s accelerator complex to high-energy physics for fi ve decades and Lorenzo went on to become one of interested scientists and buyers. mentor of dozens of students, passed the founding fathers of the ALePH The exhibitors were from a broad range away quietly and unexpectedly in Pisa on experiment in the 1980s. He organized of technical fi elds, with the majority 13 January. He was professor at the Scuola italian participation in the collaboration engaging in those of electronics and normale Superiore in Pisa and spent most of and co-ordinated many projects, both in the vacuum technologies. The event was his scientifi c career at CERN. construction phase and during the physics organized by cern in collaboration with Lorenzo was among the proponents of exploitation. He was spokesperson of the the German Federal Ministry of education two experiments in the early 1960s that collaboration in the years 1993 and 1994. and Research (BMBF). Karl-Eugen allowed the fi rst measurement of theπ 0 As scientifi c director of CERN, Lorenzo Huthmacher, head of the BMBF’s and η lifetimes via the Primakoff effect at was instrumental in approval of the LHc in directorate-general 7: Provision for the Frascati and then at DESY. Later he joined Lorenzo Foà, a founding father of ALEPH. December 1994, following the cancellation of Future – Basic and Sustainability Research, fi rst the CERN-Orsay-Pisa collaboration (Image credit: Courtesy Foà family.) the Superconducting Super Collider project visited the stands after inaugurating studying polarization in hadron scattering in the US in 1993. After approval, he played the exhibition together with cern’s BMBF’s Karl-Eugen Huthmacher, right, is welcomed to the 12th Germany at CERN and then the Pisa-Stony Brook collaboration of the nA1 and nA7 experiments. in nA1, a leading role in getting the international director-general rolf Heuer. exhibition. (Image credit: CERN-PHOTO-201401-017 – 32.) at cern’s intersecting Storage rings a multiparticle spectrometer was used in community (Japan and US) on board to (ISR). This experiment discovered that the conjunction with the fi rst active targets to complete funding of the construction of the total proton–proton cross-section starts measure the lifetimes of charmed mesons. accelerator in a single stage. increasing at iSr energies – a departure in nA7, the same spectrometer in a different In 1998, Lorenzo joined the CMS Download your copy today from what had previously appeared to be confi guration allowed precise measurements collaboration and was chair of the board fl at “asymptotic” behaviour. of the electromagnetic form factors of pions from 2000 until 2009, during the delicate http://cerncourier.com/digital In the 1970s, Lorenzo was the founder and kaons in the space-like region and of the period of the end of the construction and CERNCOURIER and spokesperson of the FRAMM (for pion in the time-like region. FRAMM was commissioning of the experiment. His actions frammentazione, or fragmentation) a key stepping stone for the development were vital in strengthening the collaboration has gone digital collaboration, which established the basis of new detectors and their successive and improving the structures and procedures,

40 41 cerncourier www. V o l u m e 5 4 N u m b e r 3 A p r i l 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier April 2014 CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places Faces & Places

v i s i t s O B i t u a r i E s Sergey Kruglov 1929–2014

40 41 cerncourier www. V o l u m e 5 4 N u m b e r 3 A p r i l 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier April 2014 CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places Recruitment

with particular attention given to promoting great scientist and a protagonist in science important in science and life. F o r advertising e n q u i r i e s , c o n ta c t CERN C o u R i E R recruitment / c l a s s i F i e d, ioP P u b l i s h i n g , te m P l e c i r c u s , te m P l e Way, b r i s t o l bs1 6hg, uK. young physicists. management at the european and worldwide ● His colleagues and friends. te l +44 (0)117 930 1264 Fa x +44 (0)117 930 1178 e- m a i l s a l e s @ cerncourier . c o m The whole high-energy physics level. He was also a special person: very ● A conference in memory of Lorenzo Foà P l e a s e c o n ta c t u s F o r inFormation a b o u t r at e s , c o l o u r o P t i o n s , Publication d at e s a n d d e a d l i n e s . community owes a great deal to Lorenzo’s generous and always around, he was able to will be held in Pisa on 12 June. See http:// vision, wisdom and charisma. He was a tell his friends and students about what is particlephysics.sns.it/index.php. François Etienne 1944–2014

Chair in Accelerator Physics (Associate Director of the Cockcroft Microwave Specialist (m/f) it is with great sorrow that colleagues at grew into europe’s enabling Grids for Institute) the centre de Physique des Particules de E-sciencE project and the European Grid Salary: Professorial (minimum £60,266) GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, an Marseille (CPPM), at CNRS-IN2P3 and at initiative and into the Wordwide LHc Reference: A907 accelerator lab with about 1100 employees, is building the cnrS iT Division learnt of the passing Computing Grid (LCG). He was at the the international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research core of a small team that decided, with And away of François etienne in January. (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. We are seeking an Lecturer in Accelerator Physics François had a distinguished and fruitful strong support from cnrS, the resolute electrical engineer or physicist with very good knowledge Salary: £37,756 to £45,053 career, focused on triggering, data extraction positioning of France in the grid initiatives. in microwaves and analog electronics. Within a specialized Reference: A909 and computing. He started working in the under his guidance, the in2P3 computing team, the selected candidate is going to develop, produce 1970s in Strasbourg, in connection with centre in Villeurbanne was set up as a Closing date: Thursday 1st May 2014 in small quantities, measure and integrate several novel cern, Fermilab and the Massachusetts powerful main node (Tier-1), while several microwave systems and components, which are mostly not institute of Technology, on a system to strong secondary nodes (Tier-2) were in the As a founding member of the Cockroft Institute and with the UK’s highest ranking physics department in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Lancaster available on the market. These systems will be used for the analyse pictures from bubble chambers. making and LCG-France was taking shape. University is seeking to appoint a Chair in Accelerator Physics (Associate Director stochastic cooling of heavy ion and antiproton beams in He defended his “thèse d’etat” on the François Etienne in 1994. (Image credit: With his internationally recognized of the Cockcroft Institute) and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Accelerator Physics the FAIR accelerators and consist of components with very production of charmed particles in 1984 François Touchard.) expertise and highly appreciated management to further consolidate the Institute’s international profile. The successful applicants demanding requirements on the linearity of the frequency at the university Louis Pasteur. Later, at skills, François chaired several committees on will be expected to advance experimental research in accelerator physics in close response over large bandwidths in the range 1-4 GHz. For the Large electron–Positron collider at steering committee, as chairman of the computing at cern and in France. He served collaboration with Institute members in the Physics & Engineering Departments, example, frequency-independent phase shifters, variable other universities, and Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories. cern, he made substantial contributions TDAQ Institute Board – where his poised for many years (1999–2006) as computing delay lines and vacuum-compatible microstrip circuits, to reconstruction, data analysis and management and professionalism were adviser for the in2P3 director. His numerous You must have a Ph.D. in accelerator physics, particle physics, electrical are commonly required. He/she will also participate to the engineering or a related discipline, with an outstanding research and publications visualization software for DeLPHi, and then highly appreciated – and as co-ordinator of talents gained him wide national and commissioning and further development of such systems in record and a high level appreciation and grasp of potential future international for ALEPH when he joined CPPM in 1986. the ATLAS event Filter. He was also chair international recognition, from researchers as accelerator developments. the accelerators. well as computing professionals. From 2006 At cPPM, François was in charge of of the RD47 research project at CERN and a Informal inquiries about the institute may be made to Professor Swapan setting up a computing group that grew member of rD13. to his retirement in 2009, he was head of the Chattopadhyay, [email protected]. For information about the Lancaster We offer versatile tasks in a worldwide unique well-equipped successfully into a computing department, His unique, innovative and thoughtful cnrS iT Division. University Physics Department: Professor Peter Ratoff, laboratory. The position is initially limited to 5 years. which remained under his responsibility vision of the ever-growing and critical role in daily life, François always had a friendly, [email protected]. Further details and application information until 1998. Initiator and organizer of the of computing in particle physics and in dedicated and trustworthy attitude. More than The Lancaster University Department of Physics is strongly committed to fostering (job reference no. 6430-14.09) can be found at 1st IN2P3 Computing School in 1990, and other fi elds led him to play a prominent role a colleague, we have lost a friend. our deepest diversity within its community as a source of excellence, cultural enrichment, http://www.gsi.de/en/jobscareer.htm organizer of many of the following ones, he in the early days of grid computing, as one condolences go to his family, particularly to and social strength. We welcome those who would contribute to the further was also a member of the cern computing of the founders of DataGrid and as the head his wife, and to his friends and colleagues. diversification of our department. School international Advisory committee, of the DataGrid test bed, which eventually ● His colleagues and friends at CCPM. and organizer of international conferences. François was very active on the O B i t u a r Y N O t E ATLAS experiment at the LHc from CCApr14Cl_GSI_13x2.indd 1 21/02/2014 16:26 its inception, and created a group at Godfrey Stafford 1920–2013 the foundation of the laboratory and a former CPPM to work on event triggering and on 23 January, more than 200 people director (1969–1981), who died in July last fi ltering. He played a leading role in the gathered at the rutherford Appleton year (CERN Courier november 2013 p43). Postdoctoral Fellowships in Particle Astrophysics ATLAS trigger data-acquisition (TDAQ) Laboratory to celebrate the life and legacy For presentations and a webcast of the event, The fellowships will be based at the University of Alberta and may involve community, notably as a member of its of Godfrey Stafford – one of the leaders in see https://indico.cern.ch/event/298115/. travel to the SNOLAB facility in Sudbury, Ontario (see http://www.snolab.ca). FOM announces the search for a new Experience in the field of neutrino physics or dark matter searches is an asset. M E E t i N G For fieldwork a driver’s license is highly desirable. DIRECTOR OF NIKHEF the international Linear collider, which vacuum pumps, which is ideally suited Candidates will have a recent PhD in experimental particle astrophysics, URL: http://cerncourier.com/cws/job/J000008202 AWLc14, the Americas Workshop Japan is considering to host. The workshop for pumping rare or critical gases. nXDS nuclear or particle physics, or in a closely related field. The original appointment will be for two years, up to three years in special circumstances, subject to The end of the ﬁ xed term appointment of the current director on Linear Colliders, will be held at will consist of plenary and parallel sessions dry scroll pumps are free of lubrication funding. The stipend will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Frank Linde will be reached by 1 December 2014. FOM, the formal Fermilab on 12–16 May. As the next as well as meetings of the collaborations in the entire pumped path of the gas. The The opportunities are for the following experiments: in the series of regional linear-collider involved in the development of linear special variant nXDS-r is optmized SNO+ (two opportunities) employer of the Nikhef director, has started a search for his successor. workshops held around the world, this colliders. The deadline for early registration for situations where an application PICO (one opportunity) The deadline for applications is 15 May 2014. meeting welcomes strong international is 4 May. For more information, visit www. demands the pumping or recirculation of DEAP (one opportunity) Details at: http://tinyurl.com/particleastro. participation. its purpose is the continued linearcollider.org/awlc14/. rare or critical gases without the risk of The international search committee will interview the top candidates in Applicants should clearly state which opportunity they are interested in and June 2014 in Amsterdam. development of the physics case for a accidental introduction of atmospheric include a detailed CV, a brief statement of research interests, and arrange to high-energy linear electron–positron N EW P r O D u C t air. The pump also features intelligent have at least three letters of reference forwarded to: More information can be found on www.fom.nl and on www.nikhef.nl. collider and the advancement of detector and easy-to-control functions with simple Associate Professor Carsten B. Krauss ([email protected]) Should you have any questions regarding this search, or want to bring and accelerator designs. This meeting will Edwards Limited has launched a special operation. For further information, visit Centre for Particle Physics, CCIS 4-181 suitable candidates, especially women, to the attention of the committee, particularly address the developments for variant to its nXDS range of dry scroll www.edwardsvacuum.com. University of Alberta you can contact Dr. Wim van Saarloos, director of FOM, at Edmonton Alberta CANADA T6G 2E1 [email protected]. The review of applications will continue until the opportunities are filled. 42

CCApr14Cl_Alberta_10x2.indd 1 07/03/2014CCApr14Cl_FOM_10x2.indd 15:45 1 11/03/2014 14:59 CC_Apr_14_Classified_44-45.indd 43 12/03/2014 09:49 cerncourier www. V o l u m e 5 4 N u m b e r 3 A p r i l 2 0 1 4